Complications
Atul Gawande
评分 9.1分
In gripping accounts of true cases, surgeon Atul Gawande explores the power and the limits of medicine, offering an unflinching view from the scalpel's edge. Complications lays bare a science not i
Being Mortal
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阿图•葛文德 白宫最年轻的健康政策顾问，影响奥巴马医改政策的关键人物，受到金融大鳄查理•芒格大力褒奖的医学工作者，《时代周刊》2010年全球“100位最具影响力人物”榜单中唯一的医生。 哈佛公共健康学院教授，哈佛医学院教授，世界卫生组织全球病患安全挑战项目负责人，《纽约客》等杂志的医学专栏作家。 美国麦克阿瑟天才奖获得者，
Daily Rituals: How Artists Work
Mason Currey
评分 7.4分
Franz Kafka, frustrated with his living quarters and day job, wrote in a letter to Felice Bauer in 1912, “time is short, my strength is limited, the office is a horror, the apartment is noisy,
Something to Declare
Julian Barnes
Anyone who loves France (or just feels strongly about it), or has succumbed to the spell of Julian Barnes’s previous books, will be enraptured by this collection of essays on the country and its cu
This is Going to Hurt
Adam Kay
评分 9.0分
Welcome to 97-hour weeks. Welcome to life and death decisions. Welcome to a constant tsunami of bodily fluids. Welcome to earning less than the hospital parking meter. Wave goodbye to your friends
Former People
Douglas Smith
The Patrick Melrose Novels
Edward St. Aubyn
评分 8.0分
For more than twenty years, acclaimed author Edward St. Aubyn has chronicled the life of Patrick Melrose, painting an acrid portrait of the beleaguered and self-loathing world of privilege. This si
A Bend in the River
V. S. Naipaul
'Brilliant and terrifying' Observer Set in an unnamed African country, the book is narrated by Salim, a young man from an Indian family of traders long resident on the coast. He believes The world
Running with Scissors
Augusten Burroughs
评分 8.2分
Running with Scissors is the true story of a boy whose mother (a poet with delusions of Anne Sexton) gave him away to be raised by her unorthodox psychiatrist who bore a striking resemblance to San
Uncle Tungsten
Oliver Sacks
著名的神经学学者奥利弗·萨克斯写的《钨叔叔》（UNCLE TUNGSTEN）被《纽约时报书评》评为2001年度最佳图书之一。
The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
Douglas Adams
When all questions of space, time, matter and the nature of being have been resolved, only one question remains - "Where shall we have dinner?" "The Restaurant at the End of the Universe" provides
The Bone People
Keri Hulme
Winner of the Booker Prize in 1985, "The Bone People" is the story of Kerewin, a despairing part-Maori artist who is convinced that her solitary life is the only way to face the world. Her cocoon i
In America
Susan Sontag
"In America" is a kaleidoscopic portrait of America on the cusp of modernity. As she did in her enormously popular novel "The Volcano Lover," Susan Sontag casts a story located in the past in a fre
The Pianist
Wladyslaw Szpilman
评分 8.7分
Named one of the Best Books of 1999 by the "Los Angeles Times," "The Pianist "is now a major motion picture directed by Roman Polanski and starring Adrien Brody ("Son of Sam"). "The Pianist" won th
